'EX SAID HE'D KILL ME AND MY KIDS'

A YOUNG mother wept as she told a jury how her former boyfriend stabbed her in the heart after breaking into her home.

Sharon Anderson said Simon Hunt, the father of her two sons, had threatened to kill her and the children "so no-one could have us" and that she thought she was going to die during the incident at her home in Lulworth Road in Whitley. The jury at Oxford Crown Court has been told Hunt, 23, was served an injunction three days earlier banning him from her home, where she had a panic alarm installed.

But Miss Anderson said Hunt went round on October 17 and produced a knife after she told him off for telling one son he did not love him.

She told the jury: "He said he would kill me and the kids so no-one else could have us."

Miss Anderson added: "I was scared and thought I was going to die."

Hunt, of Burlingham Close in Whitley Wood, then stabbed her in the left breast, she said.

She continued: "I said ‘Simon, can you please phone me an ambulance?' and I asked him to pass me my phone. I said I would phone myself.

"He was telling me that he loved me but he would not do anything. I felt dizzy and I lay on the floor because I could not stand."

The court heard how Hunt had spent most of October 17 drinking and listening to music with his friend Darren Jay.

Mr Jay said at around 10pm Hunt left his home saying he was going to visit Miss Anderson.

He added: "I said he'd get into trouble but he said it was on the way home.

"I knew it wasn't a good idea because of his court order. The more we got drunk the worse it got but not to the extent where I thought he would do anything.

"I phoned up Sharon because I was caught in the middle but I couldn't get through and left a message."

Darren Rolfe, who lives with his girlfriend Holly Chapman in the flat below Miss Anderson's, said he heard what sounded like a door being kicked in before 11pm on October 17.

He told the court: "He shouted for her to open the door and then there was a banging that sounded like a foot to the door.

"Then there was a big bang and I assumed he'd smashed the door open. She was screaming and she sounded frightened."

Mr Rolfe said he shouted upstairs to ask if everything was okay and Hunt replied that everything was fine before running downstairs and asking to borrow a phone.

But instead of making a call he threw the phone down shouting "**** it" and ran back upstairs, said Mr Rolfe.

The police arrived seconds later and found Miss Anderson unconscious in the hallway, he added.

The jury has been told the knife passed through Miss Anderson's ribs and tore the right ventricle of her heart.